jxchappell

So do you want everything for the same price you are paying now? You have avoided the cost question this entire thread My point being, they charge you for "unlimited" and you get everything you want but you have to pay 300,000...or you can go in smaller chunks for 100K base then into 10K chunks as you need...that is…

I can't truly tell if people are more concerned about money or performance? You're going to pay for it either way, don't the APEs just provide more scalability in smaller cost increments?

124% wow, your floors must be shaking

I guess I didn't realize the License Manager did this now in 12.0.1...I have not applied a new APE license to any of my pollers since the upgrade

Apologies, for the data here, this is just a single APE, I think it's a good reference for what an actual APE doing only NTA and NPM polling can handle

1. There are no additional features and I do not know of any changes to the polling engine...however, after you install the extra poller, you see the Polling Rate get cut in half immediately after...how it does this needs to be answered by Product Management, whether it's extra threads or whatever 2. I just want to say yes…

Don't forget the 2 Million $ Exadata stacks that Oracle sells...stacked with servers, and a couple switches...common IT practice

dfairles​ - Like I said, you can buy an unlimited license and put as many nodes and elements on a server as you want, there is nothing limiting that, There are no hard limits in the tool...there are suggested limits...but there are physical limits to any hardware, whether is Network or Server...even a 40GB interface can…

There is nothing stopping you from buying 1 unlimited license and putting as many nodes and elements on 1 host, go for it...If saving money is your thing

No matter what, you still need a Main web server...that isn't an option, it runs all the master modules, NPM, NCM, NTA, VNQM, WPM, etc..and all of the APE's pull licensing...and with the new upgrade, the files are actually pulled from there too...of course unless latency gets you from the international sites, but that's a…

Just to be clear, those licenses are nodes not elements

Let me know if you need help...I have 16 APEs, 2 International and the rest in the US, and have never had any issues

I don't see how that would be structured. Wouldn't you still need to sell in "packages" of elements? How would they possibly price per element? it would still have to be a package of some sort or they would have to keep track of your elements on a daily basis to charge you every day?? That is just horribly inefficient, no…

That is incorrect There is a separate APE install package that you do run, and you run it each time you add a poller to the stack, up to 3 times...the only thing I can think is that maybe you wouldn't run it on your main poller, but we did not stack on our main poller, it is strictly used for the web site The APE does not…

You DO run the installer...which then asks you for another license key that you purchase as an APE license, it registers the license and activates on the poller

Hmm...not sure how to approach your statements...we highly value performance and reliability over anything...it's not always about saving money We do have Pollers in our separate regions so traffic stays on the dedicated network...ie collect data in London and send it over its network to SW DB, instead of the devices using…

To be clear, I don't think it installs any application software, I definitely think it uses the existing software...I believe there must be something that allows the application to spawn more threads, if that is an unlock feature of some kind so be it, but whatever it is would be very minor. Something has to get enabled…

1. I'd need to run some experimentation on this but I believe the APE stacked licenses do install some software to utilize more CPU threads...I have a couple licenses that I can install to see what does get installed, but this would take me some time to research so I will need to get back to you on that...so I am saying I…

I love my stacked pollers and the horsepower and flexibility it offers...this system is resource intensive, but it provides a huge amount of value...stacked pollers do provide scalability at a low cost...everyone needs to remember, for what you pay, you get a lot of features...I've been Administering SW for over 5 years…

I have a tendency to be very cautious during upgrades so I have not attempted any "outside of the box" ideas on this

Sounds about right when you're running everything on 1 Web Server. The Web Site optimization takes a long time and can vary based on hardware specs...I wouldn't worry unless you see errors, and in that case a run through of the installation a second time usually cleans that up too. When you have APEs it is different, and…

No matter what solution you choose, you're going to have to put something in front of Solarwinds, for the optimum solution at least(F5, Plixer, Linux)...if you have it at the same layer, you'd have to change your nodes anyway to add the new receiver, and then you'd be duplicating traffic to each application that wanted…

Solarwinds is just a receiver of UDP traffic on the port your devices are sending the data to. Why don't you just have the devices send the Flows directly to your other applications? thats if they can read them Are your apps you're looking to send to able to accept Netflow or were you thinking of moving raw data?

I receive the same error...I'm thinking this is a bug, considering the latest upgrade pulls the same files from the main poller and this happens on all of my pollers...and I have no issues that I can see

Have you tried using the MIB browser on the device?

Have you installed the latest 2.0.1 hotfix? I have had issues with Netpath and support has asked me to do this, although I might wait until 12.1 comes out because I don't feel like doing it

I was just wondering the same thing this morning...my initial thought is no...but I have not upgraded yet

Ours got fixed after the device was rebooted...I know its not always possible but, it is what worked after looking into the issue for a few months

I'm noticing more incorrect memory stats in my system as well...have you addressed this with support? any solution etc?

I can't remember when they moved the NTA DB to a separate database and host, but my guess is that is whats happening